Hawaiian seabirds
Brown booby (left) and masked booby (right). Photo (c) Dan J. McSweeney
While our studies in Hawai'i focus on odontocetes, for a number of years we have been attempting to photograph rare or uncommon species of seabirds, and in recent years have been tallying all seabird sightings and providing sightings and photographs to be included in the online Birds of the Hawaiian Islands. Unusual sightings and photographs are reported in the quarterly reports of North American Birds, and are also contributed to the Hawai‘i Birding group. In September 2011 we also co-authored a paper on dark-rumped petrels (Pterodroma phaeopygia/sandwichensis) in Hawaiian waters - a copy can be downloaded here. As well as an important opportunity to document the seabird community in Hawai‘i, we also record information on seabirds interactions with various species of whales and dolphins. We present below photographs of most species of seabirds we have documented in Hawaiian waters.
For more information contact Robin W. Baird at rwbaird (at) cascadiaresearch.org or Daniel Webster at dwebster (at) cascadiaresearch.org or see our Hawai‘i odontocete research page
The species we've documented in Hawai'i are listed below - click on a name for photos of each species (we are still adding some species) - all photos are taken in Hawaiian waters:
Photo (c) Dan McSweeney
Photo (c) Daniel Webster
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Photo (c) Daniel Webster
Photo (c) Robin Baird
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Photo (c) Daniel Webster
Photo (c) Daniel Webster
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Photo (c) Daniel Webster
Photo (c) Brad Hanson
Dark morph wedge-tailed shearwater. Photo (c) Robin Baird
Photo (c) Daniel Webster
Photo (c) Robin Baird
Photo (c) Robin Baird
Photo (c) Daniel Webster
Photo (c) Daniel Webster
Photo (c) Daniel Webster
Photo by Robin Baird
Photo (c) Daniel Webster
Photo (c) Daniel Webster
Great frigatebird chasing booby
Photo (c) Daniel Webster
Photo (c) Daniel Webster
Photo (c) Daniel Webster
Photo (c) Daniel Webster
Photo (c) Daniel Webster
Photo (c) Daniel Webster
Photo (c) Daniel Webster
Pomarine jaeger
Photo (c) Robin Baird
Photo (c) Daniel Webster
Photo (c) Daniel Webster
Photo (c) Daniel Webster
Photo (c) Annie Douglas
Photo (c) Daniel Webster
Photo (c) Robin Baird
Photo (c) Daniel Webster
Photo (c) Daniel Webster
Photo (c) Darren Roberts
Photo (c) Robin Baird
Regional reports from North American Birds that include sightings and/or photographs from our surveys
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